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Interview Tour de West: Logan, UT – Part 2
The holiday featured plenty of playful moments. Becklyn is always keen for a laugh, as seen below featuring a stocking gift she received: The Big Kids Outing included “cleaning the sink” at Angie’s restaurant. Both sinks below were filled to overflowing with ice-cream, bananas, toppings and whipped cream. Thanks to Landen and Keiton’s resilience they…
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T. S. Eliot poem
O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying! The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance…
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Interview Tour de West: Logan, Utah – Part I
Brecklyn, Sabina, Brigette, and I After two wonderful weeks in Salt Lake with Brigette I headed up to Cache Valley with Sabina. She and Brecklyn drove up to take Brigette and I out to see the Christmas concert by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra on Temple Square. I was excited to have a girl’s…
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Interview Tour de West: California, Arizona, Washington
While Scotter and I were keeping warm in the “Best Snow on Earth” Tom was speeding around California interviewing in San Francisco, Oakland, and Palo Alto. Interview at Stanford Then in pursuit of even more sun he headed home to Tucson to spend time with his folks, friends and interview in Phoenix. At the U…
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Interview Tour de West: Salt Lake City
While we stayed an extra week in Washington Tom flew off to interview in LA and Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City from the top of the library When we arrived the day after Tom’s U of U interview, Tom picked us up from the airport and said: “Welcome to your new city!” He had…
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Interview Tour de West: Moxee, WA
After our adventurous and aquatic day in Portland we drove to Moxee, WA. The first few days we spent time with my two younger sisters, helped my Mom around the house, worked on a secretive project for my Dad’s 60th birthday celebration (more on that later) and enjoyed their “ranch.” Soon after we arrived Brigette…
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Interview Tour de West: Portland
I’m not quite sure where to start with such a long trip. So I guess I’ll do it in chucks as if I was blogging along the way. View of Portland from the aerial tram Our trip started in Portland, Oregon. Scotter and I explored the city while Tom interviewed with the Children’s hospital. (An…
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Mothering
I dedicated today to intent mothering. In otherwords Scotter was my myside all day today, doing puzzles, playing with trains, switching the laundry, putting away the dishes, going to the art and children’s museum and making dinner. All through dinner prep Scotter stood, on a chair, by my side. He happily chattered on smiling and…
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Excited
While away, I found myself stressing about all the details involved with preparing our home to sell. Now, at home, I’ve found myself excited by the prospect of staging my home. Maybe it’s the actress in me, but I love the idea of painting a scene. I’m excited to seek out those finishing touches that…
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We're Back!
Whew, after six weeks away, we’re back! I had intended to blog while I was away, but our internet went down shortly after we left, and therefore so did our home server/blog. As a result I have six weeks to document. Ugh! I’ll get to that tomorrow- in the meantime, Happy New Year!